Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News on Music

“The Epiphone and Squier guitars that you can get now, with a good setup, will play great and sound very close to more expensive versions”: Why The Cars' Elliot Easton believes a guitar's setup is more important than its price tag

Is it worth breaking the bank for a guitar? The Cars' six-stringer doesn't think so...

Guitar World

Watch Jinjer’s Tatiana Shmayluk stream a one-take vocal performance of recent song Hedonist

The track is taken from Jinjer’s latest studio album Duél

Metal Hammer

“THEY’RE IN THERE!!! And they are LOUD”: Recordings of Oasis soundchecking in Cardiff are now online

But were they the actual band?

MusicRadar

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

“People hear surf guitar in our music, but I think that comes more from the fact Dick Dale was Greek – so Misirlou was a Greek tune”: Introducing LA LOM, the LA trio turning fiberglass guitars and psychedelia into a dance party of guitar instrumentals

This trio fuse the rhythms of Havana, Medellín and Lima with ’60s surf rock (even if that isn’t their intention). Guitarist ZacSokolow, bassist Jake Faulkner and drummer Nicholas Baker tell us how it all comes together

Guitar World

“Judas Priest were doing something different. Black Sabbath gave us a real confidence boost to carry on what we were doing”: K.K. Downing on coming up with fellow metal gods Black Sabbath in Birmingham, and why no-one can play like Tony Iommi

They are from the same city, sharing a similar mission, and this weekend they will gather for one last push for metal as the former Judas Priest man steps onstage to celebrate Black Sabbath

Guitar World

“He wanted something that was a bit more heavier, had a bit more compression to it, a bit more gain”: Laney celebrates Black Sabbath's final show with a limited edition Black Country Customs reissue of Tony Iommi's TI100 signature amp

Originally launched in 2012, the TI100 is a dual-channel 100-watt tube head with footswitchable boosts, lots of gain, lots of crosses. This is an exacting replica, signed by the man himself

MusicRadar

“The return of a legend”: Tony Iommi and Laney mark Black Sabbath’s final show with an ultra-limited signature amp – which revives an old favorite for the first time in 13 years

Only 50 of the relaunched TI100 – which brings back Iommi’s signature head from 2012 – will be made available

Guitar World

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

“Roger went absolutely nuclear, apoplectic. He had every right to”: Producer Bob Ezrin reveals what led him to fall out with Roger Waters over The Wall

He was too trusting with a journalist, apparently

MusicRadar

Tulisa's dad dies: Devastated singer announces death of Mungo Jerry keyboard player Plato Contostavlos

‘Forever my father's daughter,’ Tulisa shared in an Instagram tribute

Evening Standard

“We wanted to play a 20-minute crazy solo. An extended, jammy outro used to be a pretty common thing, and now it feels completely dead”: Meet Dutch Interior, the SoCal indie-rock outfit channeling the Allman Brothers with six – yes, six – guitarists

Noah Kurtz and Connor Reeves of Dutch Interior on long-form songwriting and how six guitarists come together around one vision

Guitar World

What would British culture be like if Oasis had never existed?

Would Britpop have happened? Would bands still dream as big? As Oasis prepare for their return gig on Friday, it’s worth asking what their cultural impact has been

The Guardian - UK

Foo Fighters release 80-second cover song recorded across three decades, statistically working at a rate of 2.67 seconds a year

Listen to the post-grunge icons’ take on I Don’t Wanna Hear It by hardcore legends Minor Threat

Louder

“Alice in Chains have had a long relationship with Ozzy, who gave us one of our first breaks – and gave us a bass player”: Jerry Cantrell on his lifelong love of Black Sabbath and touring with Ozzy Osbourne (before taking his bassist)

The Alice in Chains riffmaster on his love of Tony Iommi and what to expect from his performance at Black Sabbath's curtain call, Back to the Beginning

Guitar World

It’s not inevitable that musical dinosaurs dominate the charts. Here’s how we rescue pop in Britain

Thanks to streaming, the charts are dominated by albums from years ago. Australia has shown how to give new artists a chance, says music business journalist Eamonn Forde

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

MusicRadar

“Nobody was going to freak out. We said, ‘This is going to get done. We just need to find the right person to join the family.’ And we got Steve Vai, thank God”: How the virtuoso Vai put the sizzle into the last big hair metal album of the ’80s

And he wasn't even supposed to be on the record in the first place

Louder

"The health and well-being of the band has to come first": Saxon cancel 10 summer shows as Biff Byford undergoes emergency surgery

Saxon aim to be back on the road in late August

The Independent UK

Music critics say Oasis only made two good albums. Gen Z strongly disagree

IN FOCUS: New, younger fans of the Britpop legends are discovering their much-maligned latter-day catalogue without the context of the times. It’s time the band’s older, more cynical observers follow their lead, says Hamish MacBain

The Independent UK

Voices: I quit the BBC over Gaza – Glastonbury proves it was the right thing to do

COMMENT: By trying to play things safe with its Kneecap coverage – and getting it very wrong with Bob Vylan… – the corporation has failed to represent the reality of public sentiment about Palestine, says its former newsreader Karishma Patel

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Louder

“The label didn’t want me to do it, but didn’t want to piss me off. We were both famous guitarists so I thought there’d be a lot of interest. I was right all along”: Andy Summers and Robert Fripp collaborated with remarkable ease

When the Police and King Crimson men got together, the result was two well-received albums and a stack of forgotten material – finally released – that they can’t believe wasn’t used in the 80s

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre to stream this month: Stereophonic’s suite of addictive songs

A sensational Broadway recording, an electrifying Liza Minnelli documentary and King and ‘Queen’ Lear

The Guardian - UK

Taylor Swift, Charli xcx and Springsteen among live music acts who gave UK £10bn lift in 2024

Report says concerts attracted record 23.5m fans, leading to unprecedented spend across British economy

The Guardian - UK

Bob Geldof told Freddie Mercury ‘don’t get clever’ before 1985 Live Aid set

Queen members Roger Taylor and Brian May say Geldof told Mercury: ‘Just play the hits – you have 17 minutes’

The Independent UK

Drake vs Kendrick Lamar feud reaches court as judge to decide on the truth in rap battles

A judge is being forced to contemplate the nature of rap battles and wordplay in Kendrick Lamar’s megahit ‘Not Like Us’

Guitar World

“Big Muffs are usually 'all or nothing', but the Chelsea is a different beast”: EarthQuaker Devices Chelsea Low End Fuzz Driver Pedal review

The secret weapon behind LCD Soundsystem's bass tone is here at last, and it's... a Big Muff?

Latin Times

Trump Official Revokes Punk Duo's Visas Over 'Death to IDF' Chant Criticizing Israel at Glastonbury

In the wake of anti-Israel rhetoric at the UK's largest festival, Bob Vylan was dropped by their label and denied entry to the U.S. ahead of their upcoming tour.

1 … 345 346 347 348

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.